Australian Bachelor contestants Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlon find love – with each other

Two women who appeared as contestants on an Australian series of The Bachelor did not snare the eligible male but have apparently ended up in a relationship with each other.

Rumours began to swirl about the pair – Megan Marx and Tiffany Scanlan after they began posting candid and intimate Instagram photographs of themselves together with captions such as "my favourite person" and "there are many things that I love but this is one”.

Numerous media outlets concluded that the romantic nature of the relationship had finally been confirmed this week after Marx, 27, declared “I love you” in a post to mark Scanlan’s thirtieth birthday.

“I met Tiffany in a very strange situation,” Marx wrote.

“Well... we were kind of dating the same guy. And it was filmed and put on TV. From that first cocktail party, it was like this instant calibration between souls, as if we had known each other once before.”

She added: “Friendship ripened into something bolder… She's helped me to disintegrate many of the ideals I've had that were harmful (about relationships, about career and 'stability') and for that I feel set free.”